Installation of High Efficient Cook Stoves by EKI Energy Services Limited

Integrity

The verification report dated 2023-05-01 confirms additionality through an activity-based test and states that the VVB, LGAI Technological Center, S.A., verified the project. It also reports no material findings and no corrective actions required, which supports the project’s integrity. That said, leakage is not addressed in the extracted record, the buffer pool is not stated, and no reversal history is available, so permanence and leakage controls remain weakly evidenced.

Transparency

The monitoring and verification record covers the 2022 monitoring period and shows that claimed and verified emission reductions are both 215,035 tCO2e. However, several transparency-relevant items are missing from the extracted record, including baseline reassessment timing, leakage deduction, and some usage parameters. The presence of a named VVB helps, but the overall disclosure quality is only moderate.

Claim Safety

Claim safety is supported by the exact match between claimed and verified emission reductions in the verification report. Even so, the baseline is described as project-based rather than clearly standardized or recently reassessed, and leakage is not addressed, which raises over-crediting risk. The project is not clearly positioned as CCP-approved or CORSIA-eligible in the extracted record, so channel-risk mitigation is limited.

Documentation

Documentation quality is moderate because 17 documents were used and extraction confidence is medium. The record includes a dated verification report and several safeguard indicators, but important fields remain missing, such as buffer pool treatment, baseline reassessment, and leakage deduction. The contradictions around FPIC, safeguards, benefit sharing, and grievance mechanism reduce confidence in the completeness of the evidence set.

Overall

The project’s strongest point is that the VVB verified the 2022 reductions and the claimed and verified totals match exactly. However, the extracted record contains contradictions on FPIC, safeguards, benefit sharing, and grievance mechanism, and I privilege the later 2023 verification report over earlier 2023 documents because it is the most recent and likely the final assurance statement. I also privilege the later statement that leakage is not addressed, which is more conservative than the earlier contradictory indication that leakage was quantified; these reliability issues justify a downward adjustment to the overall score.